Gregory Dart

Gregory Dart is a Senior Lecturer in the
English Department at UCL. His main academic project over the past few
years has been a monograph called
Cockney Adventures, an extended study of metropolitan art and
literature 1815-40, which was published in 2012 by Cambridge
University Press.

This study consists of a general introduction to
Cockneyism in Keats and Hunt followed by a series
of individual chapters on Pierce Egan and the Cruikshank brothers’ Life
in London and Regency style, Lamb and beggars, Hazlitt’s ‘On
Londoners and Country People’ and Romantic periodicals, Dickens,
Renton Nicholson and clerks, Hazlitt’s confessional
memoir Liber Amoris and lodging houses, B. R. Haydon’s Mock Election and debtors’ prisons, and urban ruin in Soane and John Martin.

Dart’s current project, which is equally
metropolitan in its way, is the general editorship of a six volume
scholarly edition of the Complete Works of Charles and Mary Lamb for
Oxford University Press. His collaborators are Tom
Lockwood, from Birmingham, who is editing the volume on Lamb’s Dramatic
Specimens, Felicity James, who will be editing the Works for
Children, and Samantha Matthews, who is editing the Album Verses and miscellaneous poetry. Dart’s tasks are to edit the Works of 1818, the Essays of Elia
and Last Essays of Elia and also a volume of Lamb’s
miscellaneous prose.

My colleague Matthew Beaumont and I have also recently edited a collection of essays, Restless Cities, which was published by Verso in 2010.

I have also contributed to an 80 minute film by Chris Petit, based on my book Unrequited Love, which was produced by Illuminations Films in 2006.